A constellation is a group of stars that forms a recognizable pattern in the night sky, one we've given a name, usually after a mythological figure, animal, or object. There are 88 of them officially recognized, and together they map out the entire sky....
In the summer of 1967, a 24 year old graduate student named Jocelyn Bell Burnell was combing through reams of paper printouts from a brand new radio telescope at Cambridge, hundreds of feet of data every single week, when she noticed something odd. A...
Ever thought a planet could just tip over? Our solar system looks like a predictable dance of spheres. But one world breaks the rules. Why Does Uranus Rotate on Its Side is a big mystery in astronomy.
Most planets spin like tops, but Uranus spins...
If you learned your solar system facts in school anytime before the last couple of years, theres a good chance whatever number you memorized for Saturn's moons is now seriously out of date. This isn't one of those slow, gradual updates either, Saturn's moon...